Stalled

ppl. a. [f. STALL sb.¹ and v.¹ + -ED.]

  † 1.  Payable at fixed periods. Cf. STALL v.¹ 4.

1553.  Act 7 Edw. VI., c. 1 § 8. Collectoures of Customes, or certeyne and stalled Subsidies within any Porte [etc.].

  2.  Of a person: Endowed with or occupying a (church) stall. ? Obs.

1630.  R. Johnson’s Kingd. & Commw., 388. Certaine select & stalled persons.

1742.  Young, Nt. Th., IV. 74. Was I as plump, as stall’d theology.

1829.  I. Taylor, Enthus., x. 262. Infidelity aggravated by stalled hypocrisy.

  3.  Of an animal: Confined to a stall; fattened in a stall for killing. lit. and fig.

1560.  Bible (Geneva), Prov. xv. 17. Better is a dinner of grene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.

1638.  Penkethman, Artachthos, I 3 b. A fat stalled Cow 12s.

1734.  trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist., XVII. ii. (1768), V. 511. To die a death worthy of Sparta, and not to wait as stalled victims, till it was thought proper to sacrifice them.

1885.  Stevenson, Prince Otto, I. iv. 56. About the stable all else was silent but the stamping of stalled horses and the rattle of halters.

1895.  Sir H. Maxwell, Duke of Britain, xv. 212–3. Stalled venison braised with prunes.

  4.  Divided into stalls or compartments for animals.

1825.  Hazlitt, Spirit of Age, 6. He proposed at one time … to make Milton’s house … a thoroughfare, like a three-stalled stable.

1839.  Bailey, Festus (1852), 139. Through the foul-stalled stable of this world.

1898.  J. K. Fowler, Rec. Old Times, 108. The stables were stalled.

  5.  Of a vehicle, etc.: That has stuck fast.

1839.  Bailey, Festus (1852), 335. It is they Who set their shoulders to the stalled world’s wheel And give it a hitch forwards.

1851.  Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunt., iii. 24. Now and then we were halted to help a ‘stalled’ wagon from its miry bed.

  6.  Glutted, satiated.

1740.  Dyche & Pardon, Dict. (ed. 3), Stalled,… also surfeited, or made to loath any particular food, by eating too much often of it.

1788.  W. H. Marshall, Yorksh., II. 355. Stalled; satiated with eating.

1798.  W. Roscoe, trans. Tansillo’s Nurse, I. (1800), 33.